Kabul:
A blast at a mosque on the outskirts of the Afghan capital through Friday prayers killed at least 12 worshippers, police mentioned, shattering the relative calm of a 3-day ceasefire.
“The death count has jumped to 12 killed including the imam of the mosque and 15 others are wounded,” Ferdaws Framurz, the spokesman for Kabul police mentioned, updating an earlier toll.
He mentioned the explosion occurred inside a mosque in Shakar Darah district of Kabul province.
The blast is the initially key incident because a short-term truce among the Taliban and government troops came into force on Thursday.
The warring sides agreed on the truce to mark the Muslim vacation of Eid al-Fitr, only the fourth such halt in fighting in the practically two-decades old conflict.
Deadly violence has rocked the nation in current weeks right after the US military started formally withdrawing its remaining 2,500 troops from Afghanistan on May 1.
Last week, a series of blasts outdoors a girls’ college in the capital killed more than 50 men and women, most of them teenage girl students.
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